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With no security guards or compound wall, biodiversity under threat, warn activists

Edit Indian Express 13 May 2016
Panchgaon Parvati Hill Complex includes Parvati, Hanuman tekdi (hill), Waghjai, Dhankawade Pathar and Taljai Hills ... Share This Article. Related Article ... 6, slideMargin ... Some of the exotic trees on Taljai Hills are Giripushpa (Gliricidia sepium), Subabhul or Kababhul (Leucaena leucocephala), Australian Babhul (Acacia auriculiformis), Patangi (Dalbergia melanoxylon), Gulmohar (Delonix regia), and so on, other than many exotic weeds....

New variety of leucaena will benefit graziers in humid areas

Edit Australian Broadcasting Corporation 30 Mar 2016
Grazier Nathan Evans and researcher Max Shelton agree the new psyllid resistant variety of leucaena will be very beneficial to beef producing areas which struggle with the pest ... ....

Grazier Nathan Evans says psyllids were limiting where leucaena could be successfully grown

Edit Australian Broadcasting Corporation 30 Mar 2016
Grazier Nathan Evans says psyllids were limiting where leucaena could be successfully grown ... ....

Insect-resistant forage crop almost ready for commercial release

Edit Australian Broadcasting Corporation 30 Mar 2016
A new variety of insect-resistant leucaena is almost ready for the commercial market, with two growers in central Queensland growing the crop for seed ... ....

Cattle methane emission downsized by 24 per cent (CSIRO - Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research ...

Edit Public Technologies 14 Dec 2015
(Source. CSIRO - Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation). 14 December 2015 ... 'Some of these are as simple as integrating leucaena into grazing systems, improving growth rates or herd reproductive performance, while other future techniques may include feeding red-algae to livestock and have been prioritised for further research,' Dr Davison said ... distributed by ... (noodl. 31271034) ....

Cattle methane emission downsized by 24 per cent (MLA - Meat & Livestock Australia Limited) ...

Edit Public Technologies 14 Dec 2015
(Source. MLA - Meat & Livestock Australia Limited) ... This resulted in an update of the National Greenhouse Gas Inventory (NGGI) ... 'Some of these are as simple as integrating leucaena into grazing systems, improving growth rates or herd reproductive performance, while other future techniques may include feeding red-algae to livestock and have been prioritised for further research ... For MLA media enquiries contact.. distributed by ... (noodl....

Native plants and red algae among ways to substantially reduce livestock methane emissions (MLA - ...

Edit Public Technologies 15 Oct 2015
Leucaena plantations in northern cattle systems - Trials near Rockhampton in Queensland showed cattle grazing on both pasture and leucaena produced 20 per cent less methane and had growth rates 22 per cent higher than cattle on pasture only; Using red macro-algae as a supplement - Identified as a practice with potential, experiments in cattle and ......

Barbados Livestock Industry Self-Sufficient (Government of Barbados - Office of the Prime Minister)

Edit Public Technologies 21 Aug 2015
(Source. Government of Barbados - Office of the Prime Minister). Barbados' livestock industry is self-sufficient with supply matching demand, even as feed prices continue to present a challenge for farmers ... The alternative, the Deputy Chief Agricultural Officer suggested, was protein plants such as the mild berry, river tamarind (leucaena) and quick stick (glircida) ... Mr ... julia.rawlins-bentham@barbados.gov.bb distributed by ... (noodl....

Minott challenges Bloomfield in Portland Eastern

Edit Jamaica Observer 05 Jul 2015
"I don't even know if he's heard ... In the late 1970s, Minott was among a group of scientists and energy experts from Jamaica, Barbados, Haiti, Trinidad & Tobago, and St Lucia who established the Leucaena project in response to the energy crisis at the time. The group produced energy as well as animal feed from the Leucaena plant, which is referred to in some parts of the world as the 'miracle tree' and in Jamaica as 'wild tamarind'....

Home and Gardening

Edit The Dallas Morning News 25 Feb 2015
Many of the foods Texans love and claim as their own — burritos, tacos, enchiladas — originated with our Mexican neighbors. Several of the distinctive native herbs of the Americas that make Mexican cooking so flavorful, however, have been lost in translation ... Mexican oregano ... This native herb is rarely bothered by pests ... The green or purple flat pods of the guaje tree (Leucaena glauca) provide a garlic flavor for meat and egg dishes....

Alien plant species poses local threat

Edit Taipei Times 30 Jul 2014
An alien plant species from the mimosa family known as the white popinac (Leucaena leucocephala) is proliferating in Pingtung County’s Hengchun Peninsula (恆春), jeopardizing the environment of indigenous plants and wreaking havoc on the county’s natural landscape. Native to Mexico and Central America, the fast-growing plant is resilient against arid environments ... ....

Salt scheme against El Niño

Edit Sun Star 30 Mar 2014
UPLAND farmers, often regarded as the "poorest of the poor," can substantially defy the onslaught of El Niño by adopting a technology promoted by a non-government organization based in southern part of the Philippines ... The previous figure, in 1982, was P597.85 per month ... Alimoane, the center's director. Among those that are used for hedgerows are locally-grown "ipil-ipil" (Leucaena leucocephala) and "kakawate" (Gliricidia sepium) ... ....

NMSU biologist awarded NSF Mid Career Award for study of ‘miracle tree’ (New Mexico State University)

Edit noodls 17 Jan 2014
(Source. New Mexico State University) ... (NMSU photo by Mustafa Al Omran). Date. 2014-01-17. Writer ... Bailey, an associate professor of biology in the College of Arts and Sciences, and his team are studying the genome characteristics of the genus of tropical, nitrogen-fixing trees and shrubs called Leucaena ... Over the course of the grant, researchers will sequence, assemble and compare sets of expressed genes from all species of Leucaena....
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